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T.F.
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created 25 August 2003. Corrected and updated
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H.R.H.
Prince Rupert
Duke of Cumberland
1619-1682
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full name: |
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Rupert |
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birth: |
1619.12.17 |
Prague, Bohemia |
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father: |
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Frederick V, King of Bohemia |
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mother: |
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Elizabeth Stuart (daughter
of James I, sister of Charles I) |
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assoc (I): |
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Frances Bard |
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children (I): |
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Dudley Bard (d.1686) |
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assoc (II): |
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Margaret Hughes |
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children (II): |
1671 |
Ruperta [married
Lt.-Gen. E.S. Howe, Colonel of 15th
Foot] |
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death: |
1682.11.29 |
London, England
(buried: Westminster Abbey, London, England |
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| Titles,
Orders and Awards |
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Titles: |
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Prince Rupert |
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Count Palatine of the Rhine,
Duke of Bavaria |
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1644.01.24 |
Duke of Cumberland, Earl of
Holderness |
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British Empire/Commonwealth Orders
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1645 |
KG |
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PC |
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Foreign Orders and Awards: |
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| Honorary
Military Appointments |
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1672.03.30 |
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Colonel, The Barbadoes
Regiment of Dragoons [disb. 1674] |
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1672 |
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Colonel, Prince
Rupert's Regiment of Marines [disb. 1674] |
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1678.02.15 |
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Colonel, Prince
Rupert's Regiment of Dragoons [disb. 1678] |
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Netherlands
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1633 |
Trooper, Life
Guards [Netherlands] |
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1633-37 |
Thirty Years War:
sieges of Rheinberg, Tirlemont, Breda |
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1638 |
Colonel, <cavalry
regiment> [Sweden] |
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England: |
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1642.08 |
General of Horse |
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1641-45 |
commander royalist cavalry forces, English Civil War |
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1644.11 |
Lieutenant General of all the King's armies [to Sep. 1645] |
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1648. |
commander of the Fleet [to Jan. 1649] |
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1665.05 |
Admiral? |
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1665 |
commanded squadron in second and third Anglo-Dutch
wars |
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1673 |
First Lord of the Admiralty [to 1679] |
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France: |
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1646? |
Maréchal de Camp |
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1647 |
siege of La Bassée |
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| Other
Military Connections |
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